On the 5th of July 1948, a world changing event took place – the British National Health Service was founded. From that day onwards, the people in this country have had access to world-class healthcare, which is provided in the most cost-efficient way possible. To celebrate this momentous occasion, the Keep Our St Helier Hospital (KOSHH) campaign […]
Category: NHS
Epsom & St Helier, the plot sickens
The Wimbledon Guardian have today run a front page article about the threat to St Helier, but recent developments have been a little confusing. For clarity, we have put together a brief timeline of events over the last year or so. In January 2015, Daniel Elkeles started work at Epsom & St Helier Trust, as […]
The truth can be scary
KOSHH Campaigner, Georgia Lewis shares her thoughts on scaremongering: “You’re scaremongering!” It is a common accusation when you are campaigning to save your local hospital and, indeed, the wider NHS. The “scaremongering” accusation is often used to either try and shut a discussion down or as a way of sticking fingers in ears and burying […]
Guest Article: Your Junior Doctors
This is once in a generation fight, if we lose, there will be no NHS for the next. Junior doctor, and friend of KOSHH, Dr Ruhe Chowdhury is a member of a new organisation called “Your Junior Doctors”. They have launched a campaign, aimed at getting information out about the junior doctors’ contract negotiation. They have […]
Video: Friend of KOSHH on TV to discuss the TTIP
If you have already heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, well done – this enormous deal between the USA and the EU has been veiled in secrecy, and the mainstream media have done very little to inform the public about it. The TTIP, if passed as it stands, would be the most […]
Diary Date: The truth behind the crisis – public talk
An event is taking place on Wednesday the 20th of April in Brighton, hosted by Sussex & Brighton Students Save Our NHS. There will be two talks by friends and supporters of KOSHH, Dr Lucy Reynolds and Dr Bob Gill, followed by a public question and answer session. The event takes place on Wed 20th […]
Press: Epsom & St Helier miss A&E Target for 5 months
The Sutton Guardian have today run a story in the print edition of their newspaper, covering the fact that the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have missed the government’s A&E target for 95% of patients to be seen within 4 hours, for August 2015, September 2015, October 2015, November 2015, December 2015 […]
Press: KOSHH in the news, A&E waiting time targets.
The Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust have missed the government target for A&E waiting times every month since August 2015. Until recently, the government target for the percentage of A&E patients to be seen within 4 hours was 98%, but in June 2010, the Con-Dem government relaxed this target to 95%. There are a number […]
What’s really at stake with the junior doctors contract?
Junior doctor, friend, and supporter of KOSHH, Aislinn Macklin-Doherty has written the following piece about the junior doctors’ contract, and how the struggle is about so much more. Crowning Glory The NHS is one of Britain’s greatest crowning glories in history, if not the greatest. Britain demonstrated to the world that it is possible for […]